Non-target school#79 of 100
Binghamton University investment banking placement: is it a target school?
Binghamton University is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #79 of the 100 schools we measure: 65 alumni list investment banking analyst titles alongside the 18 top banks from classes of roughly 2015 onward, weighted for school size, and its wider banking alumni network holds 345 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
- Rank
- #79of 100 schools
- At 18 top banks, 2015+
- 6577% graduated 2018+
- At the elite five
- 2234% of the top-bank total
- IB alumni network
- 345#87 by profiles
- Per 1,000 undergrads
- 23.9#84 per capita
- US-based
- 92%316 profiles
Is Binghamton a target school for investment banking?
The verdict, from the dataBinghamton ranks #77 on top-bank alumni while sitting at #79 overall, a two-place gap that leaves the headline resting squarely on the analyst record. 65 alumni who graduated in 2013 or later are matched to the 18 top banks by an investment banking analyst title tracked here, with 50 of them finishing school in 2018 or later.
An #87 network by size still lands #79 overall on actual analyst seats: 345 IB profiles across 14,409 undergraduates works out to 23.9 per 1,000 undergraduates against a median of 97.8, ranking #84 per capita. 22 of the 65 analysts, or 34 percent, are at the elite five. 92 percent of profiles are US-based, and hedge funds are the strongest vertical at #52, with 17 hedge fund profiles per 100 IB profiles.
That elite share is on the low side, so most of these analysts sit across the broader group of large banks rather than the elite five. The count is still 65 people, which is a substantial working base for a school positioned this far down the headline ranking, and the recent skew suggests it is still being added to.
Binghamton investment banking placement by bank
Analysts, classes of ~2015+Binghamton University's analysts at the 18 top banks we measure, graduates of 2013 or later with investment banking analyst titles, against the elite five. Its per-bank cells are not yet measured, so the breakdown by bank is the one thing this page cannot show.
- 18All 18 top banks we measure65
- 5The elite five: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview22
By count alone Binghamton University ranks #77 of 100; the table of schools ranked nearby, below, sets that figure beside its neighbors.
Where Binghamton alumni land beyond investment banking
Alumni profiles, all yearsBinghamton University’s rank in each vertical we count, by the same title-phrase method. Bars show its count as a share of that ranking’s #1 school.
How to recruit for investment banking from Binghamton
The Fleishman Center’s first-destination summary for the Class of 2025 rests on an 83.8% knowledge rate and 2,980 survey responses: 88.2% of graduates were employed or in graduate school within six months, and graduates employed full time in the United States reported a $79,486 mean starting salary.
The center follows NACE guidelines, counting direct survey responses plus employment or graduate school information confirmed through LinkedIn toward the knowledge rate, basing salary figures on direct survey responses only, and reporting results in aggregate for any major with at least five responses; students can filter the outcomes tool by school, program, and class year back to 2021.
A Wall Street Journal ranking for 2022–23 put Binghamton in the top 10 nationally for graduates’ accounting salaries, in the top 10 among fully public colleges for high-paying finance jobs, and in the top 20 for marketing, on the strength of a School of Management that offers accounting programs and finance and marketing concentrations.
Forum alumni call Binghamton firmly a non-target: the business school brings companies to its own job fairs, which students outside the school cannot attend, while economics majors, who one poster believes make up most of those breaking into banking, have no structured process and must hustle and network; placement skews heavily to the Northeast and New York.
Our data ranks Binghamton #79 on 345 top-bank analysts from 14,409 undergraduates, or 23.9 per 1,000; 92% of its banking alumni network is US-based. Its per-bank cells are not yet fetched, so the neighbor table above stands in for a bank breakdown.
What Binghamton publishes about outcomes
6 figures, 2 sourcesEvery figure below is quoted from the source named above it, as published; none is ours. Read them beside our counts, which measure a different thing: analysts matched to named banks rather than a graduating class's outcomes.
Binghamton Fleishman Center for Career and Professional Development, Student Outcomes (Class of 2025)
- Knowledge rate, Class of 2025
- 83.8%
- Survey responses, Class of 2025
- 2,980
- Employed or in graduate school within six months, Class of 2025
- 88.2%
- Mean starting salary, full-time US employees, Class of 2025
- $79,486
Binghamton News, Binghamton ranks among best in nation for high-paying accounting, finance, marketing jobs
- Wall Street Journal rank for accounting salaries
- top 10
- Wall Street Journal rank for marketing
- top 20
How Binghamton compares with schools ranked nearby
Analysts at 18 top banks, ~2015+Binghamton investment banking FAQ
8 questionsIs Binghamton University a target school for investment banking?
Binghamton University is a non-target school for investment banking by our count. It ranks #79 of the 100 schools we measure: 65 alumni list investment banking analyst titles alongside the 18 top banks from classes of roughly 2015 onward, weighted for school size, and its wider banking alumni network holds 345 profiles that include an investment banking job title.
How many Binghamton alumni are analysts at the top investment banks?
65 Binghamton University alumni from the classes of roughly 2015 onward hold investment banking analyst titles alongside one of the 18 top banks we measure, the #77 count of the 100 schools ranked; 22 of them are at the elite five, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview. Its per-bank breakdown is not yet measured, so the table above compares its total with the top of the ranking.
Do banks treat Binghamton as a target school?
No; forum alumni call it firmly a non-target where the business school’s job fairs are closed to outsiders and economics majors break into banking by networking, mostly into New York. Our count ranks it #79 of 100.
How do Binghamton graduates fare after graduation?
88.2% of the Class of 2025 were employed or in graduate school within six months on an 83.8% knowledge rate, with a $79,486 mean starting salary among full-time US employees.
How does Binghamton rank for finance salaries?
Top 10 among fully public colleges for high-paying finance jobs and top 10 nationally for accounting salaries in a 2022–23 Wall Street Journal ranking.
How many Binghamton University alumni work in private equity?
209 Binghamton University alumni profiles include a private equity job title, ranking #79 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Binghamton University alumni work in venture capital?
40 Binghamton University alumni profiles include a venture capital job title, ranking #84 of the 100 schools in our database.
How many Binghamton University alumni work in hedge fund?
57 Binghamton University alumni profiles include a hedge fund job title, ranking #52 of the 100 schools in our database.
How we counted Binghamton’s analysts
Counts come from People Data Labs, which aggregates public professional profiles. The headline rank is anchored on the strict measure: profiles that list Binghamton University in their education, a job title containing “investment banking analyst”, one of 18 named top banks as an employer, and a graduation year of 2013 or later — the analyst classes of roughly 2015 onward, deduplicated across banks. Those conditions hold on the profile rather than on a single job, so the title and the bank are usually but not provably the same role. The rank weights that count at two-thirds and the same count per 1,000 undergraduates at one-third, so school size is priced in. The elite-five figure counts analysts at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Evercore, and Centerview. Data pulled 2026-10-16.
The alumni-network figure is broader: everyone who has held a title containing “investment banking” at any firm worldwide, across all years, including graduate alumni. It reads as the size of the school’s banking network rather than a single era’s placement. Of those, 316 (92%) are currently based in the United States and 29 are abroad. The per-1,000 figure divides the network count by 14,409 total undergraduates reported for fall 2023 in the NCES IPEDS Fall Enrollment dataset — a school-size comparison, not a placement rate for a graduating class.
